1. Read Online Blackflies (Simuliidae) (Simuliidae) (Fauna of the USSR.
Diptera)
Title : Blackflies (Simuliidae) (Simuliidae)
(Fauna of the USSR. Diptera)
Realease : 1995-06-30
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Book Description
The majority of blackflies (family Simuliidae) are blood- suckers of man and domestic animals. Throughout the
vast territory of the Soviet Union, in the steppes, forest steppes, and especially the taiga and tundra, blackflies
occupy a prominent place among the blood-sucking Diptera. It is now clear, that not only in the tropics but
throughout the Soviet Union, blackflies are transmitters of several diseases of domestic animals, mainly
onchocerciasis of cattle and reindeer and many dangerous diseases of domestic fowl. Hence blackflies are of
medico-veterinary and sanitary-epidemiological importance. Unlike other blood-sucking insects such as the
malarial mosquito, blackflies have hitherto been relatively poorly studies. The purposes of the present volume
is to provide a brief description of species and new identification keys. It primarily incorporates numerous
additions to the first edition of Fauna of the USSR. This second edition also includes 18 species from countries
adjoining the Palearctic region, which have not been recorded to-date in the Soviet Union, and 30 species
described by Enderlein from Europe (whose description has been improved upon) which may be discovered
later in the Soviet Union. The fauna of the USSR currently includes about 300 species of blackflies. Read more